Invent

Definition of Invent

In`vent´

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb. n. Inventing.]
	1.	To come or light upon; to meet; to find. And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. - Spenser.
	2.	To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; - applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. - Cowper.
	3.	To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; - in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. - Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. - Sir W. Scott.

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